Dramatically interweaves themes of brotherhood and betrayal as senior cadet, Will McLean, courageously struggles to forge his own honor code and manhood in a regimented, venerable, but corrupt Southern military academy
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"'Pat Conroy's is the most articulate and commanding voice to speak for and from the south since Thomas Wolfe'" (Anne Rivers Siddons)
"'Tremendous depth, intricacy and compression...a novel about virtues we neglect to our diminishment: courage, brotherhood and victory over the difficult obstacles to authentic manhood'" (James Dickey, author of Deliverance)
"'A work of enormous power, passion, honour and wisdom'" (Washington Star)
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'Pat Conroy's is the most articulate and commanding voice to speak for and from the south since Thomas Wolfe' Anne Rivers Siddons
'A work of enormous power, passion, honour and wisdom' Washington Star
'Tremendous depth, intricacy and compression...a novel about virtues we neglect to our diminishment: courage, brotherhood and victory over the difficult obstacles to authentic manhood' James Dickey, author of Deliverance
'Gripping, gruelling...superb' Playboy
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